Google Apps

Google Apps is a suite of cloud computing productivity and collaboration software tools and software. It includes Google’s popular web applications including Gmail, Drive, Hangouts, Calendar, and Docs. While these products are available to consumers free of charge, Google Apps for Work adds business-specific features such as custom email addresses at your domain and storage for documents and email.

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In this Experts Exchange video Micro Tutorial, I'm going to show how small business owners who use Google Apps can save money by setting up what is called a catch-all email address in their Gmail accounts. By using the catch-all feature, small business owners can support popular inbound email addresses, such as info@MySmallCompany.com, sales@MySmallCompany.com, support@MySmallCompany.com, etc., without having to pay the Google Apps fee for those "users". If the volume of such emails in your small business is reasonable, then all of them can be directed to another Gmail account on your domain. In the best case scenario, a one-person company can do fine with just a single Google Account user, saving the small business owner hundreds of dollars per year.

The downside of this approach is that any email sent to the domain, legitimate or not will be routed to the one user, which greatly increases the chances of spam and phishing attacks getting through. It also provides a "legitimate" return address for spammers that use spoofing.

Other options are:

Setup specific nicknames for the user, such as info@, sales@, service@, help@ etc. This can be done from the User admin section, as noted in the video, by adding alias addresses.

Use the Groups feature to setup a "distribution list" for info@, sales@, etc to forward to the user

The advantage of these options is that you can also configure to user so that he/she can reply using the nickname/group name. So, the user can reply as info@, sales@ etc OR their personal address.

Hi Allen,
Yes, those are downsides of the approach, as stated in Google's caveat shown in Step #6 above and why I took the time to read the caveat in full during the video. Thanks very much for providing your thoughts on other options — those are interesting ideas! I've used aliases/nicknames and groups/distribution lists with other email providers/client software, but not with Gmail. I'll check it out — appreciate the tip! Regards, Joe

This doesn't work for me because since I live in Japan, I am always taken to google.co.jp rather than google.com. Typing ee pulls up sites with ee in their names or content. That's OK. If I type in experts exchange, I am taken to a page where experts exchange is among the search results. I click on the URL, log in and then do my search.

If you've completed the "Add a Search Engine" (Step 2 in instructions above), to trigger this dynamic search with "ee" you will type "ee" into the browser address bar and then press the space bar (not the enter key). This will trigger the custom search engine to become active.

Is it only applicable to the Chrome browser on PCs?

It's only applicable to Chrome desktop browsers. Currently the mobile OS doesn't allow the creation of custom search engines.

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Google Apps

Google Apps is a suite of cloud computing productivity and collaboration software tools and software. It includes Google’s popular web applications including Gmail, Drive, Hangouts, Calendar, and Docs. While these products are available to consumers free of charge, Google Apps for Work adds business-specific features such as custom email addresses at your domain and storage for documents and email.